Car-fender



(No Model.)

H. W. WEISS.

GAR FENDER.

No. 593,142. Patented Nov. 2, 1897.

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CAR=FENDER.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 593,142, dated November 2, 1897.

I Application filed April 6, 1897. Serial No. 631,016- (No model.)

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, HENRY W. Wnrss, a citizen of the United States, residing at Quakertown, in the county of Bucks and State of Pennsylvania, have invented a new and useful Car-Fender, of which the following is a specification.

The invention relates to improvements in car-fenders.

The object of the present invention is to improve the construction of car-fenders and to provide a simple, inexpensive, and efficient one adapted to be readily transferred from one end of a car to the other and capable of picking up a person without liability of injuring him.

A further object of the invention is to provide a ear-fender adapted to be normally arranged at a sufficient elevation to clear the track and capable of being readily dropped upon the same to catch a person and prevent him from getting beneath it.

The invention consists in the construction and novel combination and arrangement of parts, as hereinafter fully described, illustrated in the accompanying drawings, and pointed out in the claim hereto appended.

In the drawings, Figure 1 is a perspective view of a car-fender constructed in accordance with this invention and shown applied to a car. Fig. 2 is a longitudinal sectional view, the hinged front section or leaf being raised.

Like numerals of reference designate corresponding parts in both figures of the drawings.

1 designates a supporting-frame composed of ahorizontal bottom portion, a vertical back portion, and an inclined front portion, to which a netting 2, which forms the body portion of the fender, is secured, and the said supporting-frame is provided at its back, at opposite sides thereof, with upper and lower hooks 3, adapted to en gagezdetachably brackets of a car 4.

The bottom portion of the fender consists of side bars 5, which are secured at their front terminals to inclined bars 6, which constitute the front of the supporting-frame, and the rear terminals of the horizontal side bars are connected with vertical bars 7. The vertical bars 7 which support the upper ends of the inclined bars 6, are connected-by upper and lower transverse bars 8 and 9 and have the hooks 3 mounted upon them.

The car-fender, which is designed to be lo cated at a sufficient elevation above the rails to clear the same, is provided at its front with a hinged leaf or section 10, adapted to be normally raised, as illustrated in Fig. 2 of the accompanying drawings, and capable of being readily lowered by the motorman of the car to the position illustrated in Fig. 1 of the accompanying drawings with its front or free end' upon the track. The hinged leaf or section, which consists of front and rear transverse rods, side pieces connecting the same, and a covering of netting extending across the space between the rods, is hinged to the front ends of the inclined bars 6 by its rear transverse rod. The sides of the leaf or section project beyond the front transverse rod and the projecting portions 11 carry an elastic transverse shoe 12, which consists, preferably, of a coiled spring, but which may, if desired, be constructed of rubber suitably sup ported. The sides of the leaf or section are resilient and are adapted to spring inward to relieve the transverse shoe when a person comes in contact with the car-fender.

The hinged leaf or section of the car-fender is operated by a transverse rock-shaft l3, journaled in suitable bearings 14: at the top of the inclined front of the supporting-frame and providedat opposite sides thereof with arms 15, which are connected by rods 16 with the front transverse rod of the hinged leaf or section, whereby when the rock-shaft is partially rotated the hinged leaf or section will be swung upward or downward The lower terminals of the connecting-rods are provided with loops or rings, through which passes the front transverse rod of the hinged leaf or section, and the upper terminals of the connecting-i'ods are provided with eyes which are linked into corresponding eyes of the end arms of the rockshaft. The rock-shaft is also provided with an intermediate arm 17, with which may be connected any suitable means for enabling the motor-man to rotate the roclcshaft without leaving his position.

It will be seen that the car-fenderis exceedin gly simple and inexpensive in construction, that it is adapted to be readily applied to a car, and that it is capable of quickly picking up a person without injuring him. It will also be apparent that when the car-fender is in its normal position it Will not come in contact with stones or similar obstructions of a rough road-bed, and that the hinged section or leaf may be quickly dropped to the roadbed when desired.

What I claim is- I In a car-fender, the combination of a supporting-framehaving an inclined front, the netting connected to the inclined front portion of the supporting-frame, the hinged leaf or section connected to the supporting-frame at the front thereof and adapted to swing upward and downward, said leaf or section being provided with forwardly-projecting portions, an elastic shoe connecting the said projecting portions, a rock-shaft disposed transversely 0f the supporting-frame and j onrnaled 20 

